152 mm towed gun-howitzer M1955 (D-20) Totally Explained

Everything about 152 Mm Towed Gun-howitzer M1955 D-20 totally explained

The 152 mm howitzer M1954, also known as the D-20 is a manually loaded, towed 152 mm artillery piece, manufactured in the Soviet during the 1950s. It was first observed by the west in 1955 and was therefore known as the M1955. There is also a Chinese copy, called Type 66.
   The D-20 gun-howitzer was developed shortly after the end of WW2 by the F. Petrov Design Bureau and it was intended to replace the pre-war 152 mm ML-20 howitzer (M1937).
   The barrel length of the gun is 25 calibers. The D-20 was the first 152-mm cannon system to incorporate a semiautomatic vertical-sliding-wedge breech block
   The gun was also used for the self-propelled 2S3 Akatsiya.
   The D-20 is in operation in at least 13 countries and has been license manufactured in the People's Republic of China as the Type 66 (or the improved version Type 66-1). Its self-propelled version known as Type 83 was first introduced in the mid-1980s.
   Yugoslavia also produced a further developed gun called the M84 NORA-A.

Ammunition

Frag-HE, OF-32 - range 17,400 meters
DPICM
DPICM-BB
Incendiary
Expendable Jammer
Chemical
Flechette
Semi-active laser-guided Krasnopol-M

Wars

2003 invasion of Iraq

Yugoslav wars

Iran-Iraq War

Gulf War

Soviet war in Afghanistan

Sino-Vietnamese War

Yom Kippur War

Vietnam War

Sino-Soviet border conflict

Six-Day War

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

Sino-Indian War

Operators

- Type 20

- Type 66

- passed on to successor states

- Ex-East German. Known as 152 H 55.

- Type 66s

- passed on to successor states

- Type 66

- 20

- passed on to successor statesFurther Information

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